"Finally,because of this law, the American people will never again be asked to foot the bill for Wall Street's mistakes.

VOA: special.2010.07.23

So the status of slave was lowest, ; freed persons was next highest in Roman Law; and free people were next.

所以罗马律法中，奴隶的地位是最低的，然后是自由人;,接着是自由民。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

A good law," he says in chapter 30, "is that which is needful for the good of the people."

霍布斯在书的第30章说，一部好的法律,对维护人民的福祉是非常必要的“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Still,law enforcement officials have long warned about the dangers of young people being identified by adults wishing to harm them.

VOA: special.2009.02.03

Now, he describes in pretty harsh and even grim terms what you can do to people who violate the law of nature.

他用很强硬甚至可怕的字眼描述,你可以怎样对待违反自然法的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Under the law,employers are not to reject people seeking work because of their genetic information.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

But it's amazing, that every year you find somebody coming up with a way of going around the second law and somehow convincing people who are very smart that this will work.

但是很令人惊奇，每年你都能发现,有人宣称找到了,绕过第二定律的方法,还不知怎么地就说服了,一些非常聪明的人,让他们以为这个真的管用。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

People are required by law to answer all questions to the best of their ability.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

if the Law of Inertia is valid for me, it's valid for other people in the same room at rest with respect to me.

如果惯性定律对我适用,那就对这屋子里的其他和我保持相对静止的人,也同样适用

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

"Corporations." he said. "should be carefully-controlled creatures of the law and servants of the people.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

We are not in a country that mandates theology in terms of its constitutional law or its governance, you never gonna have the institutionalization of 5 daily prayers and things like that, people would be penalized.

我们所在的国家并没有将宗教,写进宪法或者法律法规里，你永远不会将每天五次祷告之类的事情,形成制度规范，这对人们不公。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The law at that time required black people seated in one area of the bus to give up their seats to white people who wanted them.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

It seems to me to be evident that whatever it's other characteristics, the West has created institutions of government and law that provide unprecedented freedom for its people.

在我看来,很显然,就算各国国情千秋百态,但西方建立的政府机构与设立的法律制度,都给与其治下的公民史无前例的自由

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Huck knows that important people believe slavery is natural, the law of God.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

As a matter of fact, it's so widely believed that asset allocation is the most important tool that I think some people have come to the conclusion that it's some sort of law of finance that asset allocation is the most important tool.

事实上,我们普遍相信,资产配置是最重要的工具,以至有人得出结论,资产配置是最重要的工具,已经算是一条金融学定理了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

They contend people who are detained in these facilities are intentionally placed outside the protection of the law.

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

The most excellent princes of the past were those like Moses, he tells us, who brought tables of law and prepared people for self-government.

历史上最杰出的君王是摩西那样的,他告诉我们，摩西带来了刻有法律的石板,而后让人们据此来自治。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"My take on this is that when you are enforcing law, more and more people should be on the side of law, and it becomes easier.

VOA: standard.2009.04.08

A good law is needful for the good of the people.

一部好的法律对人民是必要的。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The law requires police to check the status of people they suspect of being illegal immigrants and also requires immigrants to carry registration documents at all times.

VOA: standard.2010.05.08

So, what starts out as a seemingly benign state of nature where everyone is free and yet where there is a law and the law respects people's rights, and those rights are so powerful that they're unalienable.

乍一看自然状态是十分良善的,人人皆自由，但还有自然法,自然法尊重人们的权利，而这些权利是如此强大，它们是不可剥夺的。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

"The American people believe in immigration,". "But they also believe that we cannot tolerate a situation where people come to the United States in violation of the law."

VOA: standard.2009.06.19

In other words he's saying lawfulness like every other virtue is a habit it is a habit of behavior and the habit of destroying disobeying even an unjust law will make people altogether lawless.

换句话说，他是在讲守法,像其它的美德，是种习惯,那是种行为的习惯，就算是,摧毁与违抗不公法律的习惯,也将让全民无法可循。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

(Recording) He says parliament could come up with an electoral law within a few months, but out of principle, the people should decide the fate of the law and express their views about the upcoming election.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

This is the force or purpose of law to set rules, to keep people, as he puts it, on their way, a law that is intended simply to constrain and control for its own sake, Hobbes says, cannot be a good law.

这就是法律的目的，制定一定的规章制度，引导人民走正确的路子，霍布斯还认为,那种简单地为了限制和控制为目的法律，是不能称之为好的法律。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

In his Cairo address, President Obama pledged to support governments that protect the rights of people to speak their minds and have a say in how they are governed, that respect the rule of law and the equal administration of justice, that are transparent and don't steal from the people.

VOA: standard.2010.05.11